Pro-bending should've been a thing during Aang's show, not TLOK.

Pro-bending should've been a thing during Aang's show, not TLOK.

  1. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Why?
    Why would a sportball arc be more suited to the war story than the early parts of a tense but mostly peaceful city?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Sportsball bad.
      It should have been underground anything goes bending fights similar to boxing before it became huge
      Just something you can do to earn a little money while people with more money earn more money betting on or against you.
      It focuses on actual combat, things that could damage or kill you, doesnt limit earth benders unfairly to just throwing disks and is dangerous enough to be illegal and therefore tempting to the bad ass renegade super gay superstar can't tell me what to do I'm better than you avatar slut
      >but dey nee teams or dey can't be da weasel wombats on a team n stuff
      Fuck you and your shitty team

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Then you don't want pro-bending.
        You want unga boonga shonen battle tournaments.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, something that makes sense in a tense but up and coming city with a promise that all your dreams come true with very few dreams actually coming true.
          Something that's possible instead of what they decided to write into the show.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I’m not saying I don’t like the idea of Korra joining a seedy fight club but it doesn’t really serve the story in the same fashion

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          A method of training and blowing off steam at the same time.
          Her one of her first fights could have been chungus who really liked how she battled and still have taken her out to ramen and then trained with her while the progressed.
          Zuko could be in the next class up, fighting stronger opponents, and when slutty girl finally meets him she can suck his dick in the locker room just like the first time. They can do the 'I'm so sorry' episodes and then focus slightly less on matches and more on the group of 'friends' needing to infiltrate kataras dads robot shop just like in the show

          Very little has to change. And less than I want changed in the show.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >It should have been underground anything goes bending fights similar to boxing before it became huge
        That's literally how Toph is introduced

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah.
          What happens when an established sport that us restricted to earth benders gets moved to the big city and everybody wants to play?

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >restricted to earth benders

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              That's a heel brudda.
              I'm pretty sure half of the WWE cast aren't married, pregnant, cheating on each other with the other cast, and using real force.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Wrestling is fake.
                Earth Rumble was real though

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Wrestling is fake.
                Earth Rumble was real though

                Only trannies consume a show of men in their underwear constantly going at each other

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Rent free

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >t should have been underground anything goes bending fights similar to boxing before it became huge
        Wasn't that how Toph was introduced?

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Nah man Toph was introduced at a beauty parlor

  2. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It was.

  3. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It’s dumb as fuck, no.

  4. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    If she's unneeded why make an entire show show about it?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Profit. Because it certainly wasn't to respect explore and expand the lore in ATLA

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      That's why I said I heard it on here. It's a weird failure of writing that you only really notice if you step back and look at it cynically. Korra is rife with how the writers abused and retconned a lot of Airbender canon.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >retconned a lot of Airbender canon.
        First I've ever heard about this

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Then you didn't watch one of the two avatar series.

  5. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Eh I wouldn't say so, especially with how Korra kinda wound up having her entwined with world leaders, corporate powerhouses, and secret societies
    The Avatar will still be pivotal, but increasingly as the fulcrum of an Illuminati style cabal where you can only hope you have more Asamis and Tenzins throwing their weight around than Suyins and pre-turnaround Varricks

  6. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >the story about a globe spanning war in which one group of benders had apparently completely genocided another and was making huge strides in wiping out another needed an arc where they all got together in a multi-cultutal city state and put aside their differences to have fun and play a game
    great idea dude

  7. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >The Avatar is a single person with hundreds of lifetimes of experience and wisdom
    Do you have any notion how invaluable this is?

    Do I have to be the boring fuck and point out that being the reincarnation of legendary historic figures that basically built the existing nations is just straight up better and more powerful than bending a few extra elements? It's the real reason why the Avatar would have any power and authority invested in them at all. The historic value alone is unimaginable, but imagine being able to go "let's ask what George Washington thinks" and he shows up and just straight up shits on the politician annoying you. Their career would be over.

    Of course Korra lost them+does war crimes Clone Wars Anakin style so yeah she's worthless and can't be trusted as an arbitrator.

  8. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    in the real world, recreational sport became big due to the industrial revolution giving people enough money and free time.
    An agrarian society engaged in war probably would be swamped with work.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      But benders exist. How long would it take to plant or harvest a field full of potatoes with an earthbender around?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >recreational sport became big due to the industrial revolution
      What do you mean by "recreational sport"? Because I'm pretty sure the olympics came around 2000 years before the Industrial Revolution and people watched that for entertainment. Not just for a religious outlet or military training regimens.

      But if you're talking about armature organizations that nominally exist 'for fun' but also as a stepping stone to the professional league you're probably right.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        The Olympics were held every four years though, not a regular thing. Furthermore, I doubt anyone would be willing to participate in bending Avatar Olympics with the Fire Nation literally fighting everyone else. Finally, there are very few competitions where multiple different benders could compete together on mostly even ground, so it would just be better to have monobending competitions.

  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It was just not in the same way given the war separated most of the elemental groups.

  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It was

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